Advertising
See Underwriting and advertising
Affinity Group Coalition
Amended charter (PDF) as of August 2008, for coordinating body for specialized groups within public TV, recognized
by CPB and other national groups for purposes of consultation. Earlier versions: September 2006, August 2005.
APTS:
Association of America's Public Television
Stations
Bylaws,
June 1998
Carnegie I
Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, Public Television: A
Program for Action, 1967
Summary
of recommendations
Membership,
Preface and Introductory Note
Letter from
E.B. White to Carnegie I
Carnegie II
A Public Trust: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the
Future of Public Broadcasting, 1978
Summary
of Findings and Recommendations
Preface
and Membership
CPB: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
APTS recommendations
on CPB Board reform (PDF), October 2005
Curve
of CPB appropriations, 1969-2001
CPB budget
allocation formula — chart with legislative language
CPB budget, fiscal year 2004 (PDF)
Funding authorized
and appropriated for CPB, 1969-2001
Goals and objectives, 2002
Grant rules
on mailing lists and partisan political activities, 1999
University
of North Carolina Television Q&A on equity in CPB and PBS formulas,
2001
See also Public Broadcasting Act, Nixon Administration
papers
Channel reservation
FM channel allocations, 1945, including reservation of channels for noncommercial use, very slow
Comparative standards for selection among noncommercial channel applicants, rulemaking proposal in 1998,
order in 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals decision on noncommercial licensing in American Family Association v. FCC, May 2004 (PDF file)
Bills
to protect religious broadcasting on reserved noncommercial educational
channels, 2000.
FCC documents
on interference between TV Channel 6 and noncommercial FM stations,
on FCC site
Low-power FM Radio Service
(noncommercial) documents, on FCC site
Communications law
Communications law reference
links on the Georgetown University Law Center site
Media law reference
links on the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute site
Communications
industry reference links on Cornell's LII site
See Public Broadcasting Act
Digital Promise Project,
Digital Opportunity Investment
Trust
A Digital
Gift to the Nation, April 2001 report by Lawrence Grossman and
Newton Minow, on website of Century Foundation's Digital Promise Project
Rep. Markey's
Wireless Technology Investment and Digital Dividends Act, May 2002
Sens.
Dodd and Jeffords' Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Act, June
2002
Digital television
Advanced Television
Systems Committee standards on ATSC site
Development of the ATSC Digital
Standard on ATSC site
FCC digital TV documents, on FCC
site
Fourth Report and Order, DTV transmission standard, Dec. 27, 1996
Fifth
Report and Order, DTV rules, April 22, 1997
Direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
Noncommercial DBS set-aside provision upheld in Time Warner
v. FCC,
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1996
FCC Notice on DBS Public
Interest Obligations, Nov. 25, 1998
Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act — FCC's page about
Editorializing
Editorializing
prohibited by Public Broadcasting Act, 1967
FCC v. League of Women Voters
of California, U.S. Supreme Court, 1984, in FindLaw web database
Educational Television Facilities Act
See PTFP
Ethics
Ethics in Journalism — resources
on website of Society of Professional Journalists, including SPJ Code
Statement
of Principles on Editorial Integrity in the Program Process for State
Licensees of Public Broadcasting
Federal funding
See CPB, PTFP, Gore Commission, Land Grant College Acts, Nixon
Administration papers, Twentieth Century Fund Task Force, Digital Promise
Project
First Amendment rights of public broadcasters
See Independence of public broadcasting
Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
spending on educational broadcasting, 1951-76
Friends/fundraising groups
Jefferson Public Radio dispute; memo from Oregon University System Internal Audit Division, Sept. 22, 2011, and Southern Oregon University president's statement to JPR Board, March 2012.
Gore Commission
Advisory Committee on Public Interest
Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, final report 1998,
meeting summaries and transcripts (on Benton Foundation site)
History
Timeline adapted from A History of Public Broadcasting, and other resources
Timeline related to
holdings of National Public Broadcasting Archives (on NPBA site)
Tuning Out Education: The Cooperation
Doctrine, 1922-38, by Eugene Leach
Indecency
See Independence of public broadcasting (below)
Independence of public broadcasting
Action for Children's Television v. FCC, two Court of Appeals rulings
on broadcasts of indecent material: in June 1995 voiding a provision that favored public over commercial broadcasters,
and in July 1995,
upholding the indecency rule
Forbes v. Arkansas
Educational Television , U.S. Court of Appeals, 1996; overturned in Arkansas Educational
Television v. Forbes, Supreme Court, 1998
Klan v. KWMU, Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals, 2000 — Acrobat PDF file on site of Washington University
Law School, St. Louis
The "Seven Filthy Words" Case, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, Supreme Court,
1978 (on ACLU website)(in FindLaw web database)
Wingspread
Statement of Principles on Editorial Integrity in the Program Process
for State Licensees of Public Broadcasting Stations, 1984
WFDD-FM conflict between station and university, faculty senate report, 2000
FCC Enforcement
of Prohibition Against Obscene and Indecent Broadcasts on FCC website
See also Editorializing, Objectivity and balance,
Nixon Administration
Independent producers
Independent
Television Service (ITVS) Articles of Incorporation, Sept. 22, 1989
ITVS Bylaws,
as amended through Dec. 8, 1990
Code
of Fair Practices for Working with Freelance Radio Producers, AIR/PAG,
1999
Journalistic ethics
Code of Ethics, Public Radio
News Directors Inc., 2003
See also links on Ethics in Public Broadcasting
Land grant college legislation
Included here because of parallels with funding
of public broadcasting
Justin Smith Morrill and the Politics and Legacy of the Land-Grant College Acts by Craig L. LaMay, 2001, on the website of the Digital Opportunity
Project
The Land Grant Tradition,
with texts of the Morrill Acts, on the website of the National Association
of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
Educational
Telecommunications: An Electronic Land Grant for the Twenty-first Century,
a paper prepared for APTS by the Hartford Gunn Institute, October 1995
Rep. Markey's
Wireless Technology Investment and Digital Dividends Act, 2002
Low-power FM
Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 restricts the number of LPFM stations
Magnuson, Sen. Warren G.
Educational Television Progress Report, October 1965
National Educational Telecommunications Association
Bylaws, as amended July 2004
National Endowment for Children's Educational
Legislation
creating little-used endowment, Section 394 of Communications Act,
on Cornell Law School LII site
National Forum of Public Television Executives
Charter and organizational
papers from the CEO Forum's original site, 1997
Nixon Administration
The Nixon Administration
Public Broadcasting Papers: A Summary, 1969-74,
released in 1979 in response to Freedom of Information Act request by
Carnegie II staff
Noncommercial
See Underwriting and advertising
NPR: National Public Radio
National Public
Radio Purposes, memo by William H. Siemering, 1970
Articles of
Incorporation, 1970
Initial bylaws,
1970
Recent bylaws,
1999
General Accounting, Feb. 10, 1984
Revenues and expenses:
fiscal 1999 amounts and categories, on NPR's site
Blueprint for Growth (PDF), July 2006
Objectivity and balance
Objectivity
and balance amendment in Public Telecommunications Act of 1992
On-demand programming
Public Service Publisher
proposal, 2005, PowerPoint file
Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE)
Statement of Mission and
Purpose, 2005
Pacifica Foundation
Bylaws,
as amended Oct. 31, 1955
Bylaws,
as amended through February 1999
Bylaws, as amended in 2003
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation,
Supreme Court, 1978, on ACLU site
Public Broadcasting Management Association
Bylaws (PDF), February 2004
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Annual Reports, 1998, 1999 and 2000 at PBS Online
Declaration
of Interdependence, 2001
CPB-PBS
Partnership Agreement, 1973
Initial by-laws,
Nov. 11, 1969
Present by-laws as amended through Feb. 6, 2000
Articles
of Incorporation, Nov. 3, 1969
Proposal
on the Formation of the Public Television Network, 1968, by Ward Chamberlin
and Robert Carlisle
University
of North Carolina Television Q&A on equity in CPB and PBS formulas,
2001
Editorial Standards and Policies, 2005
See also Underwriting, Station Program Cooperative,
Public television
Political activities
CPB grant rules
on mailing lists and partisan politican activities, 1999
Public Service Publisher
See On-demand
Public television
Why public television? Mission
statement adopted by stations, February 2004 (and article
about the statement)
See PBS
Public Television Affinity Group Coalition
See Affinity Group Coalition
PTFP: Public Telecommunications Facilities Program
Educational
Television Facilities Act, 1962 — original authorizing law
Public
Telecommunications Financing Act of 1978
Facilities portion
of Communications Act today
PTV Weekend
Lawrence Grossman's proposal for a commercially supported network for public TV stations, 1997, with
related commentaries
Public Broadcasting Act
Public Broadcasting
Act of 1967, as of April 1968
Corresponding
parts of Communications Act today, as amended through Aug. 1,
2003.
President Johnson's
message to Congress, endorsing federal aid to public TV, 1967
President Johnson's remarks on
signing the law, November 1967
Text of act analyzed: is CPB Future
Fund legal?
FCC noncommercial
station licensing rules based on the law, Sec. 73.621
Pressler
bill, Public Broadcasting Financial Resources Enhancement Act,
1996
Fields bill,
Public Broadcasting Self-Sufficiency Act, 1996
Tauzin/Markey
bill, Public Broadcasting Reform Act, 1998
Public radio
The Hidden
Medium, Overview and Summary, by Herman W. Land Associates, 1967
The Public
Radio Study, recommendations, by Samuel C.O. Holt, 1969
See also NPR, Pacifica
Purposes of public broadcasting
Why Public Broadcasting? Speeches
and commentaries on matters of purpose that appeared in Current since 1995
National Public
Radio Purposes, memo by Bill Siemering
Revenues of system
System revenues, fiscal years 2005 (most recent available), 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999 (CPB compilations
in PDF files)
System revenues, 1982-2003
Fundraising: CPB
grant rules on mailing lists and partisan politican activities, 1999
See CPB, Ford Foundation, Underwriting
Spectrum
See Channel reservations
Stations
Numbers of
stations and licensees
Station Program Cooperative
SPC proposed in
article by Hartford Gunn, 1972
TCAF
Temporary Commission
on Alternative Financing, Executive Summary, 1983
Timeline
See History
Twentieth Century Fund
Task Force on Public
Broadcasting, Summary of Recommendations, 1993
Underwriting and advertising
FCC noncommercial station
licensing rules, Sec. 73.621
FCC sponsorship identification
rules, Sec. 73.1212
FCC Public Notice: Noncommercial
Nature of Educational Broadcasting, April 11, 1986, including links
to FCC notices
FCC notice to
WTTW regarding underwriting credits, Dec. 2, 1997, and reduction of fine,
March 6, 2000
NPR's
Underwriting Guidelines, 1999
PBS
underwriting guidelines: National Program Funding Standards &
Practices
PBS program-related
merchandise guidelines, at PBS Online
Temporary Commission
on Alternative Financing, Executive Summary, 1983
FCC fines KMTP in San Francisco for airing ads, 2002. Suit by the station knocks down part of noncommercial law in Ninth Circuit Court, 2012.
See also PTV Weekend
University Licensee Association
Charter, as amended May 2005
Voters' Channel
Recommendations
for creation of a Voters' Channel, by Alvin Perlmutter
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